I'm just waiting for the first claim of how much better they sound than the CDs.

For me, the only vaguely interesting thing is whether these will be cut without peak limiting. Given that they applied the same peak limiting to the 24-bit ultra-expensive USB apple release, I doubt we'll escape it here.

However, it'll (hopefully!) be a much cheaper way of owning and playing Beatles vinyl than tracking down originals, and they'll sound better than most of the 1988 vinyl remasters. (Though for Help and Rubber Soul, they'll be the same masters!). The Beatles website is mostly selling the "experience" of playing vinyl, rather than any actual sonic superiority. How strange for a vinyl press release to be TOS 8 compliant!

Cheers,David.

P.S. and so it starts...

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linuxglobe on 27th Sep 12: “I just want to own Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road on audiophile 180 gram vinyl; I have a usb turntable, easily import into my iPhone! I *HEART* Los Beatles!!! @MarkusMcLaughln

I instructed fb2k to use RG during the ABX session. Distinguishing a difference was trivial enough without the level difference. Also I played the sample back from the beginning each time without fast switching since they will not time-align except at that point.

Anyway, I do not pretend to have proven anything with a single sample point taken from CD. Since I do not plan on testing every MoFi title available to me, I'll gladly concede (again) that I don't know what is true. I will not concede to a comment in a wikipedia article, however; especially when I was told by mzil that appeals to authority/popularity were specifically disallowed. If this requirement is now off the table, google will readily show what krabapple is suggesting is only lore.